jrklaus8 wires Mike's chat window into a Canadian-only backend
The Canada fork just connected its front-end chat to a homegrown Canadian retrieval engine - the moment the two halves of the project finally talk to each other.
Until now, jrklaus8's Canadian fork had two separate stacks: the familiar chat interface inherited from upstream Mike, and a parallel backend built to keep legal research on Canadian ground. This thread of work joins them. The chat box now sends questions to the fork's own Canadian engine rather than the original pipeline, and answers come back with citations rendered in a dedicated panel.
There's also a fallback viewer for documents pulled from CanLII - the free public database of Canadian court and tribunal decisions - so users can read a source case even when no local copy exists. The team has clearly decided its Canadian layer is the live path, not a side experiment. The trade-off: the wiring is bespoke to this backend, so it isn't something other forks could lift and reuse.
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